What's UniSysCat all about?

UniSysCat stands for Unifying Systems in Catalysis. We are a Cluster of Excellence - more than 300 researchers from four universities and four research institutes in the Berlin and Potsdam area - working jointly together on current challenges in the highly relevant field of catalysis.

UniSysCat unites biologists, chemists, engineers and physicists with the aim to revolutionize catalysis research.

News

Dr. Benjamin Steininger and Dr. Alexander Klose have been working for years on the cultural theory of petromodernity and how to overcome it. On 22 June, 22:05, their research will be presented in a film on ARTE.

Two papers in Angewandte Chemie involving several UniSysCat groups show the versatility of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) as materials for coupled photo- and electrocatalysis.

The Science Council recommends funding for a new research building worth around 69 million euros. Four UniSysCat research groups are involved in the large project.

For his photocatalysis reseach project, UniSysCat member Bart Pieber from MPIKG in Potsdam receives 839,000 Euro funding from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.

UniSysCat group leader Beatriz Roldán Cuenya will be awarded the prestigious Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry for 2022.

This year's Clara Immerwahr Awardee Charlotte Vogt has been interviewed for Berliner Zeitung. Read here how she wants to save the climate - with the help of catalysis.

A recent operando study involving the UniSysCat group of Beatriz Roldan Cuenya reveals decisive parameters in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction that were previously not understood.

Science in a shopping mall? That's literally "Mall Anders". UniSysCat is part of this experimental SciComm experience.

"The next antibiotic agent may be waiting to be discovered in your front garden." The Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse presents their research on microorganisms in the new episode of "exzellent erklärt".

A research team from the group of UniSysCat member Prof. Martin Oestreich introduced a deuteration technique by which otherwise expensive or noncommercially available NMR solvents can be prepared.

Energie-Zeitenwende: mehr Effizienz durch bessere Katalysatoren - Video with Youtuber Tom Bötticher

Video: Optogenetics

Video: Learning from nature

"Making the world better with chemistry" - John Warner

Consortium

Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2008– 390540038